Faksephyllia

• Main Author: Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae; Faksephyllia; Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6091550; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DF4203FFF24B65FF48FE9BFBCEFB0B

Paleoenvironment of Faksephyllia Representatives of the genus Faksephyllia occurred in shallow- to deep-water environments: - Specimens of Faksephyllia have been reported from carbonate rocks of both low-energy rocky to gravelly shores and low-energy shallow subtidal lagoonal areas (Lower Oligocene of Austria; see SANDERS & BARON- SZABO, 2007); Faksephyllia occurred in association with scleractinians such as the colonial genera Acropora, Actinacis, Agathiphyllia, Cladocora , Colpophyllia , Pavona, and Stylocoenia . - Specimens of Faksephyllia were recorded forming coral thickets/coral mounds in depths of 50–80 m (e.g., Danian of Greenland; see FLORIS, 1972; BERNECKER & WEIDLICH, 1990); Faksephyllia occurred in association with scleractinians such as the colonial genera Dendrophyllia and? Lophelia , and solitary genera such as Bathycyathus, Caryophyllia, Desmophyllum, Flabellum, Parasmilia, Stephanocyathus, Trochocyathus, and Wellsotrochus . - Faksephyllia was found in basin reefs at a suggested paleodepth of 100–300 m (“cold and deep-water coral bioherms”, Danian of Denmark; see e.g., BERNECKER & WEIDLICH, 2005); Faksephyllia occurred in association with scleractinians such as the colonial genera Dendrophyllia and Oculina , and solitary genera such as Cyathoceras (= Crispatotrochus ), Discocyathus, Parasmilia, and Smilotrochus . - Material grouped with Faksephyllia was reported from offshore environments (Danian of Greenland; see FLORIS, 1972); Faksephyllia occurred in association with scleractinians such as the colonial genera Dendrophyllia and Oculina , and solitary genera such as Caryophyllia and Flabellum . - Faksephyllia was found in open platform shallow-water, partially reef-building environments (“morphotype 7” sensu TRAGELEHN [1996], Paleocene of Austria; see BARON- SZABO, 2008); Faksephyllia occurred in association with scleractinians of various “morphotypes” ( sensu TRAGELEHN, 1996) some of which are here identified as the colonial genera Acropora, Actinacis, Astreopora , and Pachygyra . ...